Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

EVIDENCE (BUSINESS RECORDS) INTERIM ARRANGEMENTS ACT - SECT 11

11. Credibility of maker of statement

(1) This section applies where -

(a) a person makes a statement;

(b) that statement, or a statement wholly or in part reproducing or derived from information in that statement, is tendered for admission or is admitted under section 5; and

(c) that person is not called as a witness.

(2) Evidence is admissible which, had the person referred to in subsection (1) been called as a witness, would be admissible for the purpose of destroying or supporting his credibility.

(3) Evidence is admissible to show that a statement made by the person referred to in subsection (1) is inconsistent with another statement made at any time by him.

(4) Notwithstanding anything contained elsewhere in this section, evidence is not admissible of a matter of which, had the person referred to in subsection (1) been called as a witness and denied the matter in
cross-examination, evidence would not be admissible if adduced by the
cross-examining party.